Author: Chan, Tak-hung Leo [1954- ]
Title: The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts: Ji Yun and Eighteenth-Century Literati Storytelling
Description: Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, (1998). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xx,351 pp. Textual facsimile illus.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Ji Yun & the 18th-Century Zhiguai; 'Close Scrutiny' & Oral Storytelling; Questions of Belief & Disbelief; 'Boxue': Understanding the Supernatural; Didacticism & the Zhiguai Genre; The Didacticism of 'Close Scrutiny'; Zhiguai as Discourse; Appendices: The "Oral" Tales; The Belief Tales; The Kaozheng Tales; The Didactic Tales.

Keywords: Chinese Literary History, China, East Asia, Literature, Criticism Fiction, Ji Yun Chi, Eighteenth Century, Zhiguai, Ghost Stories